Reinforced cloth glove.



J. P. LINDEN.

REINFORCED CLOTH GLOVE. APPLICATION FILED NOV. 15. 1915.

Patented 0V. 21, 1916.

/WVA/ WE JOSEPH 1.- LINDEN, OF MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN.

To all wh om it may concern:

Be it known that I, JosnPH P. LINDEN, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee and State of Wisconsin, have invented new and 'useful- Improvements in Reinforced Cloth Gloves, of which the following is a description, reference being had to'the ac-' companying drawings, which'are a part of' this specification.

The present invention relates to the inert-- pensive cloth gloves worn by laborers in the handling of heavy or rough materials, such as large metal castings or cement building blocks and the like, with which it is common for each laborer to wear out two pairs of gloves a day, and has'for itsobject to increase the durability thereof at least to the extent of serving an entire days use by the attachment of strips of scrap leather along the bearing surface of thefingers of the" glove.

Another object of the invention is to so attach the reinforcing wearing, strips of leatherthat their side edges will be free to contact with the material handled as the With the above and other objects in view the invention consists in the reinforced cloth gloveas herein claimed and all equivalents. Referrin to the accompanying draw gs, in which like characters-of reference in icate the same parts in the different views, Figure 1 is a plan view of a glove constructed in accordance with this invention; and,

Fig. 2 is a sectional-view through one of the 'fingers thereof.

In thisrd'rawing 10 indicates an ordinary b cloth glove of the class referred to,"vvhich may be of the gauntlet type, as shown, or

engaged inthe act ofgrasping an article,

. wearing strips stitc REINFORCED CLOTH GLOVE.

' 'is reinforced or faced by means of a strip of leather 11 which is preferably attached before the glove is stitched'together and the two lines of stitching which are preferably chine are sufliciently close together that the edges of the wearing strip are up away from the finger of the glove, as shown in Fi 2, under the action of the glove in sliding over the surface of material handled. or of the material sliding through the hand. The wearing strips materially increase the wearing qualities of the glove, the folding of the leather increasing its effective thickness and withstanding the friction much longer than the cloth surface of the glove proper.

A glove equipped with wearing strips in accordance with this invention is protected to a great extent from the immediate' injurious eflects of the handling of metal bars or rough lumber, or other heavy .and'rough'surfaced material, so that ing. It afi'ords an opportunity to make use of small pieces of scrap leather commonly forming waste material at glove factories and the like, and thecost of attaching the wearing strips is insignificant when the work is done on a two-needle machine.

What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

Patented Nov. 21, 11916. Application filed November 15, 1915. Serial No. 81,463. i

made simultaneously on a two-needle mafree to turn Acloth workingi'l'glove having leather ed to the bearin surfaces ofthe fingers thereof byparalle lines of stitching spaced a substantial distance from the edges of the leather wearing strips,

the'parts of said leather wearing strips bej yond thelines of stitchin being freetoturn earing flanges. I

In ony whereof, I afix my signature,

. in, presence of two witnesses ofthe lmitted wristlet type, or of any ordi-- nary construction. Each finger of the glove along its bearing surface, or the surface JOSEPH P. LINDEN. 'Witnesses;

' KATHERINE Horn,

R. S. C.

outwardlyat their side e ge's to form 

